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HRD-93-31R 1 (1993-07-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackjf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Human Resources Division B- 253396 July 20, 1993 14963! The Honorable J.J. Pickle Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight Committee on Ways and Means House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: On April 1, 1993, your staff asked that we determine the progress made by federal and state agencies in using the Social Security Administration's (SSA) voluntary and unrestricted state death information. These agencies administer federal benefit payment programs and use the death information to help remove deceased persons from the rolls. In addition, we were asked to estimate, for selected agencies, the savings that would accrue if SSA's restricted state death information was available to them. SSA maintains the most comprehensive file of death information in the federal government. It routinely receives this information from voluntary sources, such as family members and funeral homes. To supplement the voluntary death reports, SSA purchases death certificate information from state bureaus of vital statistics. However, 34 states prevent SSA from sharing the purchased information with other agencies. RESULTS-IN-BRIEF The largest federal agencies are using SSA's voluntary and unrestricted state death information, but most other federal and state agencies have not requested and are not using this information. Based on our match of restricted state death information we estimate that $14 million in erroneous payments were made to deceased beneficiaries which reaffirms our earlier report findings.' Our review of selected agencies showed that millions of dollars could be saved each year if they had access to SSA's restricted 'See Agencies Need Death Information From Social Security to Avoid Erroneous Payments, (GAO/HRD-91-3, Feb. 6, 1991). GAO/HRD-93-31R, Status of Agency Use of SSA Death Information

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